Visual Studio and ASP

[changintimes]

do i need Visual Studio to develope ASP.NET websites ?

it's quite costly,

[zingmatter]

Visual Webdeveloper Express is free and will let you develop asp.net - go to the microsoft site to get the download.

[changintimes]

so i can use Visual Web Developer Express for creating ASP.NET content,

do i need to know Visual Basic or C# ? or is Visual Web Developer Express enough ?

[mynetworksolut]

Definitely you need to know some basic functions of VB to write ASP.net page because most built-in functions are from VB codes to display dynamic text or output.
Good luck
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